Again, I don't do well with lyrical language, so much like This is How You Lose the Time War , I'm glad I listened to it as an audio book and in time I was able to finally get my ears trained to not concentrate so much on each word and let the story flow over me.
And then there was the gore. LOL, such beautiful story-telling and then such visceral descriptions of gore! Not that I minded, but maybe don't read this on your lunch break.
And underneath the flowing language and the bloodbath and pain: a love story between a myserious Plague Doctor and a Mermaid/Siren (♫she's a maaaaan eater♫).
In the end, I ended up liking this little short story. <3